埃及著名盲人作家、被誉为阿拉伯文学之柱的塔哈·侯赛因逝世已经20周年了。1926年,他出版《论蒙昧时期诗歌》一书。近70年来,围绕该书的争论一直未曾间断。1915年,塔哈·侯赛因赴索尔本大学深造。回国后任埃及大学文学院阿拉伯文学教授。他在《论蒙昧时期诗歌》中提出,归于蒙昧时期(伊斯兰前期)诗人的诗歌多为伪托。诗中反映内容与当时政治、思想及社会、经济、宗教生活均不吻合。结论是:大部分蒙昧时期诗歌不可能产生在伊斯兰教之前。蒙昧时期诗歌是有文字记载下来的最早的阿拉伯诗歌,其地位有如中国文学开篇之《诗经》,历来 The twentieth anniversary of the death of Taha Hussein, a well-known blind writer in Egypt and a pillar of Arabic literature, was passed away. In 1926, he published the book On Poems in Ignorance Period. For nearly 70 years, the controversy surrounding the book has never stopped. In 1915, Taha Hussain went to Solvang University for further studies. After returning to Egypt College of Arts professor of Arabic literature. In his article “On the Ignorance of Poetry,” he argues that the poems attributed to the poet during the period of ignorance (pre-Islamic period) are mostly false ones. The content reflected in the poem does not coincide with the political, ideological and social, economic and religious life at that time. The conclusion is: most of the ignorance of poetry can not be produced before Islam. The ignorance of poetry is recorded in the earliest written in Arabic poetry, its position as the beginning of Chinese literature “Book of Songs”, has always been